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“I am honestly scared to death of climate change.”With these words, my 11th-grade United States history teacher began class. A class dedicated to teaching the next generation of Americans about the generations that preceded us. A class meant to help impressionable young minds see our history. A class that holds the power of right and wrong, life and death, in its wide hands. To whom was this great vessel entrusted? A man shaking in his boots because of questionable climate alarmist beliefs. Lost among the myriad of other Leftist fallacies hides one lie with power and purpose unparalleled: the danger...

The brother of an Alabama-born grandmother who was fatally punched on a French Quarter street last week is trying to understand what motivated her killing, but he expressed relief Wednesday that police had captured a suspect. “We have no earthly idea why this happened,” said Jeffrey Johnson, brother of Margaret “Jane” Johnson Street. “It won’t bring my sister back, but it helps knowing who did it and that they have him.” New Orleans police say Johnson Street, 61, got into an argument with Jeremiah Mark, 23, in the 100 block of Royal Street on April 18 at about 7:45 p.m....

A professor of philosophy has tackled neuroscientific objections to miracles, visions and the existence of God. Brad Sickler, associate professor of philosophy and program director for the Master of Arts in theological studies at the University of Northwestern, looked at how some researchers have tried to use neuroscience to explain away religious experiences. “Some attempt to create experiences that feel to the subject like an encounter with a divine or supernatural being by manipulating the brain through physical or chemical means,” wrote Sickler in a piece titled “Is God All in the Brain? Weighing Objections from Neuroscience” published by the...

Joe Biden last night brought the total new spending commitments announced in his first 100 days in office to $6 trillion - but he's facing questions over whether tax rises he proposes will be enough to cover the ambitious plans he needs to put through Congress. Speaking to 200 lawmakers in Congress last night, Biden set out plans for his $2.3 trillion 'American Jobs Plan' that he called 'a blue-collar blueprint to build America'. It joins the American Rescue Plan and the American Families Plan, at a time when national debt is at its highest level since 1945. The $1.9trillion...

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Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday reacted to Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s congressional address. In responding to Biden Wednesday, Scott pushed back against the notion of the United States being a “racist country.” His comments were met with backlash from Democrats and members of the media.

Gov. Mike DeWine’s (R-Ohio) administration will not appeal a court decision requiring the Ohio Department of Health to alter birth certificates to erase biological sex. The court had ruled that Ohio had discriminated against people who identify as transgender and who sought to change their birth certificates to reflect a transgender identity. “For more than a year, Ohioans have been told to trust science, and respect basic medical facts. Unfortunately, Governor DeWine has abandoned the science that shows that no one—regardless of the medical procedures they receive, hormones they inject themselves with, or gender stereotypes they conform to—can change their...

Thursday on CBS’s “This Morning,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she was confident in Democrats’ election prospects in 2022. Pelosi touted the Census results, which she hinted could be favorable for her party’s cause.

On April 18, 2021, Mohammad Hejazi, deputy commander of the Quds Forces, died. His death is the second blow to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) command in the 16 months following Qassem Soleimani's death in January 2020. This may have major repercussions for the Iranian regime because it is really the Quds Forces that have controlled the government for decades. After President Trump ordered Soleimani's assassination, the Quds Forces lost the mastermind behind planning attacks and controlling the regime's proxy forces in the Middle East. However, immediately after Soleimani's death, Ayatollah Khamenei appointed Mohammad Hejazi to the position of deputy...

A group of 467 alleged former Jeopardy! participants issued an open letter on Medium Wednesday, demanding an apology from the show producers for not catching a “Jeopardy!” winner allegedly flashing a white power hand gesture. “A recent contestant has caused concern among ‘Jeopardy!’ viewers for two separate occurrences, and we, as former contestants, feel the need to speak out against the messaging that these choices communicated — either intentionally or unintentionally — by the contestant Kelly Donohue and, implicitly by association, the producers of ‘Jeopardy!’” the story said.

The Second Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, also known as the Lancer Brigade, recently showed off the night vision capabilities of the Enhanced Night Visions Goggle-Binoculars (ENVG-B) on Twitter... The goggles, which the Army developed with L3 Warrior Systems, are designed to provide a sharper night vision image than previous-generation goggles. The dual-tube setup provides a larger field of view than earlier goggles, leading to greater situational awareness and increased depth perception.

He did not mention his predecessor and his entire address of over an hour was based on the only argument the Democrats have put forward on their own behalf in the last five years: Trump hate. He assumed the headship of ”a nation in crisis,” in which our “house was on fire,” and “We stared into the abyss of insurrection and autocracy,” a pitiful and almost subliminal appeal to the Trump Monster. The country had “done nothing about immigration in 30 years,” (most of them under Clinton and Obama), except that under Trump illegal immigration was reduced by 90 percent,...

The other day, I was chatting with some friends about what to do about America’s new, alien mask culture: How can we drive it from our country, why it hasn’t been rejected yet, and what responsibility each of us bears for transforming this mere hope into a reality. At one point, a friend shared this short clip of Jordan Peterson. How would he answer the question, “Whose fault is it that the safety-above-all-else mask culture persists?” Peterson does not lay the blame on Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci, the legacy media, the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, or...

The Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) reportedly had plans to arrest former Minneapolis Police Office Derek Chauvin in court and charge him with civil rights violations if the jury were to find him innocent of murder. In other words, social justice trumps American’s right to due process. Multiple sources told the Star Tribune federal prosecutors were ready to move in and charge the white ex-cop on federal counts moments after a not guilty verdict on charges of second and third-degree murder, as well as manslaughter, or in the event of a mistrial. “Leading up to Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, Justice...

Wednesday on FNC’s “Hannity,” immediately following President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reacted to the remarks with very disparaging terms. The South Carolina Republican said the speech had scared him. However, he spoke favorably of Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who offered the Republican response. “Joe Biden scared the hell out of me,” he said. “He looked weak as commander in chief, and he embraced socialism. Tim Scott made me feel great about being a Republican, proud to be from South Carolina, and hopeful about my country. But he became public enemy number...

PHOENIX — Lisa Shacket said she needed to do it. Despite the Arizona Democratic Party urging members not to participate in state Senate Republicans' audit of the 2020 presidential vote, Shacket went ahead and volunteered to find out what would happen to her ballot. She did a two-day stint -- Monday and Tuesday -- as an audit observer at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. "Both days I was there, I left horrified," Shacket, a Phoenix resident, said in an interview Wednesday. Shacket is an active registered Democrat with a background in community and legislative work. She signed up as an Arizona audit...

Major cruise news today as cruising could restart in mid-summer in American waters, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said late Wednesday in a letter to the cruise industry that USA TODAY obtained. In a statement about the letter, spokesperson Caitlin Shockey gave a more specific timeline. Cruise lines will be able to start passenger operations from the United States in mid-July, depending on how quickly the cruise lines can crew up the ships, as well as be compliant with the CDC’s Framework for Conditional Sailing Order. More importantly, it is starting to look like the CDC is starting...

Have you ever heard of Yao Pan Ma? Probably not, at least not by name. Yao Pan Ma is the 61-year old Chinese man who was brutally attacked in East Harlem on April 23. This senseless crime made the news in the New York newspapers but not that much nationally. This incident came about as Yao Pan Ma was pushing a shopping cart along Third Avenue and East 125th Street. Weeks before, he had been laid off at as a dishwasher at a Chinese restaurant in Lower Manhattan due to the pandemic. He was out collecting discarded cans to earn...

President Biden labeled terrorism by “white supremacists” the “most lethal terrorist threat” to the U.S., during his address to a Joint Session of Congress on Wednesday.